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Speak Up Scotland Impact Report
December 17, 2024Follow this link to view the Speak Up Scotland 2023/2024...
Trustees’ Report for ESU Scotland AGM Wednesday 20th November 2024
December 3, 2024Please see below for a Trustees’ Report for ESU Scotland...
St Andrew’s Debate Results
November 28, 2024On the 26th November, Young Speakers Scotland held our annual...
Public Speaking Competition Results
November 18, 2024 On the 9th November and 16th November, Young Speakers...
Schools’ Mace Results
November 5, 2024After an extremely high-quality set of Mace heats, we are...
Schools’ Mace Round – 5 October 2024
October 10, 2024On Saturday 5th October, YSS ran the second of three preliminary...
Schools’ Mace Round – 28 September 2024
September 30, 2024On Saturday 28th September, YSS ran the first of three...
Welcome Back!
August 28, 2024Welcome back, we hope you all had a wonderful summer! ...
Schools Mace Final 2023/2024
June 4, 2024On Thursday 30th May 2024, Young Speakers Scotland held the...
Speak Up Scotland Workshop Update
May 24, 2024As we break from workshops until mid-June, we would like...
Aberdeenshire Joint Workshop
May 9, 2024We love bringing our Speak Up Scotland programme to new...
Senior Public Speaking Competition Winner
March 27, 2024Congratulations and well done to Lila-Jane F of Arbroath Academy...
Junior Public Speaking Competition Winner
March 27, 2024Congratulations and well done to Tanisha T of The High...
World Speech Day Presentation: Braidhurst High School
March 18, 2024For World Speech Day on 15th March we asked the...
Scotland at Oxford Schools Finals Day 2024
March 11, 2024Congratulations to the Scottish Teams that took part in the...
Aberdeen Joint Workshop
February 21, 2024Following our successful joint Speak up Scotland workshop in Inverness...
St Andrew’s Day Debating Competition 2023
December 4, 2023"From aspiring to study law, arguing with my parents and...
Public Speaking Heats
November 9, 2023On Saturday, 11th November and Saturday, 18th November YSS will...
Inverness Joint Workshop
November 9, 2023On Tuesday 7th November, we ran our first joint workshop...
Judge Training Workshop
October 24, 2023We are always looking to expand our network of judges....
Schools Mace Heats
October 9, 2023On Saturday, 7th October and Saturday, 4th November YSS ran...
Public Speaking Themes Announcement
September 20, 2023Public Speaking Competition 2023/2024 Themes We’re excited to announce the...
2023/2024 Competitions Announcement
May 5, 2023After the success of the debating competitions last term, we're...
YSS signs up to the Power of Youth Charter
April 6, 2023Young Speakers Scotland is delighted to have signed up to...
Public Speaking Final
March 4, 2023The senior finalists of Young Speakers Scotland 2022/2023 Public Speaking...
Schools Mace – Grand Final
February 6, 2023 On Saturday 4th February 2023, Young Speakers Scotland held...
Public Speaking Heats Results
January 31, 2023 On Friday 27th and Saturday 28th January 2023 we...
St Andrew’s Day Final Video
January 12, 2023On the 30th November 2022, Young Speakers Scotland hosted the...
Focus Group
January 10, 2023We will be running our next focus group for secondary...
St Andrew’s Day Debate
December 5, 2022On the 30th November 2022, Young Speakers Scotland hosted the...
Speak Up Scotland Workshop Update – Graeme High School
November 18, 2022On Thursday 17th November we ran a Speak up Scotland...
Mace Semi-Finals Break Announcement
November 15, 2022We are pleased to announce that, following a set of...
Mace Rounds: 30th October 2022
November 3, 2022On Sunday 30th October, we successfully ran in-person preliminary rounds...
St Andrew’s Day Appeal
October 27, 2022 Our funding for this event was withdrawn at very...
Young Speakers Scotland September Newsletter
September 27, 2022You can find our September 2022 newsletter here with information...
2022-2023 Competitions Announcement
September 16, 2022We are thrilled to announce that Young Speakers Scotland will...
2022/2023 Workshops
August 26, 2022Are you teacher or a pupil at a school that's...
Young Speakers Scotland June Newsletter
June 10, 2022You can find our June 2022 newsletter here, with information...
We are recruiting a Treasurer
May 25, 2022Young Speakers Scotland is a charity (SCIO no. 050590) which...
Judge Training Workshop
March 4, 2022On Monday, 25th April we will be holding an online...
YSS Launch and Show Debate
March 1, 2022On February 24th, YSS had the privilege of hosting an...
Speak up Scotland mentioned in The Scotsman
October 26, 2021We were thrilled to be mentioned in Cameron Wyllie's column...
Judging Workshop
October 1, 2021Join us for an interactive workshop on how to to...
Applications Open for Scottish National Team Trials
September 8, 2021We are currently looking for bright, articulate pupils who might...
Online Workshops Update
May 17, 2021On the 29th April we ran a workshop at Irvine...
Gwalia Open Results
June 18, 2020On Saturday 13th June, the Scottish National Team competed in...
Team Scotland Update and Oldham Cup Results
April 21, 2020A few weeks ago we received the sad but understandable...
Debating During Lockdown
April 20, 2020I hope you're all keeping well in these strange and...